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Again, his talent for shocking statements was an asset, not a hindrance.
International concerns have been compounded – certainly for the APLN leaders – by the shrillness of Romney’s statements on China and Taiwan, as well as his extraordinary identification of Russia as America’s “number one geopolitical foe.”
Meanwhile, statements by some Central and Eastern European governments indicate that they reject, outright, the obligation enshrined in the 1951 Refugee Convention.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and recent statements by CIA Director George Tenet that North Korea possesses missiles capable of reaching the US West Coast undoubtedly shocked Americans out of their complacency over North Korea's nuclear status.
And, fifth, observers must be free to issue public statements and reports with their findings and recommendations.
The organization is also obliged to abstain from making public statements of any kind until after the results are announced, and to keep all comments and suggestions they make to electoral authorities – including their final report – strictly confidential.
But, according to PolitiFact, a Pulitzer prize-winning organization that checks the veracity of political statements, 60% of the claims by Trump that it investigated since he began his campaign have been deemed false or “Pants on Fire” false, versus 12% for Clinton.
Trump has made many more false statements than any of his opponents, and few (if any) could pass the test of not being self-serving.
Ahmadinejad’s “vision” at the UN could be dismissed as political posturing if it weren’t for a string of similar statements and actions that suggest he believes that he is destined to bring about the “End Times” – the end of the world – by paving the way for the return of the Shia Muslim messiah.
Many of the biases holding women back are unconscious; and, by their very nature, these blind spots cannot be tackled by statements of intent alone.
This follows from Hamas leaders’ frequent statements since the 2008 Gaza war that they do not want to provoke another Israeli attack, which could cost them their governing position.
It is also thanks to words – two statements followed by a conversation – exchanged betweenObama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that a joint program for bilateral nuclear disarmament was initiated.
Both enjoy using crude language in public statements.
Worse still, Trump’s statements in office hark back to a period in history when Hitler found inspiration in US immigration law.
Nonetheless, official statements suggest that the troika would not be inclined to accept Syriza’s negotiating framework, intending instead to complete the talks that it had launched with the outgoing center-right government, the goal being to securing further budget cuts and initiate new labor-market and pension reforms.
On trade, Trump’s statements have also been somewhat disconcerting.
Trump delivers hyperbolic and even false statements more frequently than his predecessors.
Such statements can sow uncertainty and division.
They unilaterally issue statements about what they see as the rules of the game for future elections.
Then there was Trump’s firing of Comey in May, followed by misleading statements from White House aides regarding why he had done so.
Judging by Trump’s campaign rhetoric, and by statements from his Republican allies, environmental protection in the US will be gutted in a frenzy of deregulation and inducements for domestic oil, coal, and gas producers.
We could formulate statements corresponding to the facts, and the facts would serve as reliable criteria for deciding whether the statements were true.
But in social sciences the relationship between statements and facts is less clear-cut because in human affairs perceptions help determine reality and facts do not necessarily constitute reliable criteria for judging the truth of statements.
Indeed, Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dismissive recent statements hint that Turkey may even be backtracking on its plans to establish more normal bilateral ties.
The stream of statements, half-measures, and clumsy initiatives has done little to improve the situation – and, in some instances, has made things worse.
Statements about the human condition are essentially matters of opinion.
Because a statement of opinion by some individuals is almost certain to offend others, and since such statements make no contribution to the discovery of truth, their degree of offensiveness becomes the sole criterion for judging their admissibility.
Talks are still on track, but the North Koreans have expressed second thoughts, owing to statements from the Trump administration suggesting that the North would be expected to denuclearize in exchange for the mere promise of loosened sanctions.
Whatever Bolton meant, Trump quickly brushed his statements aside, insisting that, “The ‘Libya model’ isn’t a model that we have at all, when we’re thinking of North Korea.”
I think that Summers is right about the optics of Mnuchin’s statements.
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